Dr. Inouye's research addresses the role of historical memory in post-WWII Asian American and Asian Canadian life. Her most recent book, The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration (Stanford University Press, 2016), explores the political, educational and legislative activism that Japanese Americans undertook in the post-War years as a response to wartime incarceration.

Karen Inouye
Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor and Director of Asian American Studies Program